Archive of fascism

Giorgia Meloni, the leader of Italy's far-right party, Fratelli d'Italia, spent years on the country's political margins before she was elected Prime Minister last fall. In this interview, Enzo Traverso sheds light on the significance of her rise and what Fascism means in Italy today.

Books that deal with the rise of fascism around the world, and how to defend ourselves against it.

Enzo Traverso on post-fascism in times of pandemic.

In this excerpt, taken from an unpublished 2002 interview, Rossana Rossanda opens up about becoming a Communist in Fascist Italy

Andreas Malm and the Zetkin Collective explore the historical basis, political arguments and future implications of the far right's role in the climate crisis. Far right governance gives rise to ecofascism and a future built on crisis and nationalism. 

Malm and the Zetkin Collective's latest contribution reveals the racist roots of ecofascism.

In an interview with Lucion Nanni, historian Enzo Traverso looks at the current rise of Islamophobia and fascism in Europe today.

Peter E. Gordon questions what really caused the anti-democratic assault on the Capitol and whether we should call the President a fascist.

We Charge Genocide is the ur-text of Black antifascism. It is the most comprehensive and detailed evidence we have of how African-American radicals have systematically challenged and defined the threat of a native fascism in the United States. Recovering and mobilizing the tradition of Black Antifascism is essential to strategic confrontation with today’s far-right.

Shane Burley reports on 100 days of protest against racism, police violence, and white supremacist militias in Portland, Oregon. A movement for police reform, Burley writes, "is now impossible in Portland because police violence itself has escalated the political stakes nightly, keeping them focused on abolition."